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  • what you describe sounds like a thread pool - search the web for more details on that if you're interested Commented Jul 16, 2012 at 8:30
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    This kind of seems like the "database as message queue" anti pattern. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database-as-IPC Commented Jul 16, 2012 at 13:54